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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abridged for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that a text has been shortened or condensed for a specific purpose or audience.
Example: "The novel was abridged for younger readers to make it more accessible."
Alternatives: "condensed for" or "shortened for".
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A story abridged for any reason does Trump a favor.
Modules including less than 4 nodes are removed or abridged for concision.
His tax returns, abridged for presentation to the news media, showed that he lost millions on his investments as the entire market plunged, including those managed by Quadrangle.
(b) Time-varying SWCX file (abridged for ease of illustration: darker row borders indicate discontinuities) corresponding to the dynamic morphology of a. (c) Time-varying dendritic structure in a developing dentate gyrus granule cell (Data Citation 3: NeuroMorpho.org NMO_52359).
One friend of mine, who has two under-10s, strongly advocates the latter approach: "I wouldn't want them to read The Brothers Karamazov abridged for children, I'd rather they read a good book that's actually written for children.
Selected essays in the first edition of HAPC were revised (and abridged) for the Concise Histories volume and further revised either for the Handbook of Popular Literature or for the second edition of HAPC.
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Translated and abridged, as, for example, by order of Frederick II of Prussia, the Dictionary became the skeptic's bible.
Since Andreessen's prolific use of Twitter means his tweets tend to get buried quickly, TechCrunch has saved his highly abridged list for posterity here.
I also love the designs, and of course classics have been abridged and rewritten for children for many years (although this is going a step further – trying to reach them even earlier, addressing the pre-readers, or those just getting to grips with literacy).
The detection calls (present, absent, or marginal) for the probe sets were made by GCOS as follows (abridged from the Affymetrix GeneChip Expression Analysis Technical Manual Affymetrix Inc.., Santa Clara, CA).
The traditional figures of rhetoric are usually only abridged arguments, as, for instance, a metaphor is an abbreviated analogy.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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